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[Manuscript – Militaria] GUISCHARDT (Charles).
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[Manuscript – Militaria] GUISCHARDT (Charles).
See original version (French)
Estimate €120 - €180
Voluntary lot
Description
[Manuscript – Militaria] GUISCHARDT (Charles). Extract from *Military Memoirs on the Greeks and Romans*. Compiled by Charles Guischard. No place, no date [second half of the 18th century]. A small quarto volume, in a plain contemporary cardboard binding.
98 handwritten folios in brown ink, in a regular and legible hand, and 16 hand-drawn, folded plates bound at the end of the volume.
Manuscript taken from *Military Memoirs on the Greeks and Romans* by Charles Guischardt (1724–1775), published in The Hague in 1758 and reprinted in Lyon in 1760. It deals primarily with the Punic Wars: battles between the Romans and the Carthaginians, Hannibal’s tactics, Scipio’s campaigns, etc.The 16 folded plates reproduce, in the form of diagrams, the positions of the armies, infantry and cavalry lines, camps, entrenchments and tactical manoeuvres discussed in the text.
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About the sale
Antique and modern books: catalogued sale
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Auction time
11/14/2026 at 10:30 AM
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